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Landslides threaten homes, strand motorists as flooding and cold temperatures plague the sierra
Relief is on the way, the weatherman says. The heavy rains that have triggered landslides and flooding in Ecuador’s sierra and inter-mountain valley should slack off by mid-week, according to… -
Colombia’s ‘border czar’ tries to ease the pain for Venezuelan refugees and bucks the trend of anti-migrant sentiment
By Dylan Baddour Felipe Muñoz’s cellphone rang about every five minutes as we talked in his 15th-floor apartment overlooking the Andes mountains. It was the local head of the UN… -
Rivers run high as a late rainy season brings lousy weather to the sierra
If you’ve been complaining about the weather lately you’re not alone. Unseasonably cool and rainy conditions have plagued most of the Ecuadorian Andes for more than a week. Friday morning,… -
Quito judge orders release of Swedish programmer accused of assisting Julian Assange
A Quito judge on Thursday ordered that a Swedish citizen and personal friend of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be freed from prison, two months after he was detained for alleged… -
Colombian refugees in Ecuador say that the UN is failing to protect them from crime gangs
By Kimberley Brown Gina Pena said she was leaving a humanitarian aid office in Ecuador’s capital Quito one day when she saw the man who had threatened her life back… -
Government says that Ecuador will not be the ‘garbage dump’ for the U.S.
Ecuador Minister of the Environment Michael Castañeda said Thursday that Ecuador will not accept plastic waste from foreign countries, including the U.S. “We have a law against this and we… -
Moreno offers guarded support for high court’s gay marriage decision
President Lenin Moreno said Thursday that Ecuadorians should support the Constitutional Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage. In the same message, however, he echoed the sentiment of the Catholic church… -
Dangerous intersections studied, Corpus Christi sweets for the masses, Music festival, Orchid farm open house, Odebrecht near bankruptcy
Jueves, 20/6/2019 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Fiesta de Música – The prelude to this festival will be Friday from 10-16:00 in one of the… -
Dominican Republic faces tourism ‘catastrophe’ if it doesn’t address deaths of U.S. travelers
By Lucia I. Suarez Sang Nine Americans this year have died in various hotels in the Caribbean nation in oddly similar circumstances – including one couple who died together inside their hotel room.… -
Elimination of the ‘green tax’ appears likely
Ecuador’s so-called green tax appears headed for the dust bin. In Tuesday’s debate at the National Assembly, there was overwhelming sentiment to eliminate the tax originally designed to protect the… -
Inti Raymi celebration officially returns to Cuenca for the first time in almost 500 years
By Liam Higgins Inti Raymi, the biggest and most important celebration of the Inca Empire and indigenous people of the Andes, is coming back to Cuenca. In the final years… -
Venezuelans continue to arrive, Tram work progresses slowly, Thieves rob four El Centro businesses, Maduro makes secret gold sale
Miércoles, 19/6/2019 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Don Giovanni – The opera by Mozart will premier in Ecuador with performances in Cuenca hoy, el viernes,… -
Buenaventura nature preserve, southwest of Cuenca, provides dazzling bird displays
Text and photos by Doug Hansen You don’t have to be a hard-core bird watcher in order to be mesmerized by the dazzling display of hummingbirds, and various other tropical…